Now, if any of you are a certain age, you'll know the title of this post references "Black Dog" by Led Zeppelin. I'm not sure that's quite the attention getter that I thought it would be but oh, well. Anyway, the last three dogs I photographed were black dogs. If you're an owner of a black dog or cat, I'm sure you know that it poses challenges. And for the record, I grew up with black dogs and have "owned" (can one lifeform really own another?) four black cats and a tuxedo. We favor black around here.Light just gets sucked up into the vortex of black fur and becomes a blob, amirite? Or it just turns out gray, not black.First of all, the light meter in your camera wants the most important ...